"Republicans embrace their phoniness"
Republicans embrace their phoniness
By Dana Milbank at the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-republicans-embrace-their-phoniness/2014/08/13/f01ee0ca-2319-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html
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NRCC Launches Fake News Sites to Attack Democratic Candidates was a headline in the National Journal on Tuesday.
As Shane Goldmacher reported, The National Republican Congressional Committee, which came under fire earlier this year for a deceptive series of fake Democratic candidate websites that it later changed after public outcry, has launched a new set of deceptive websites, this time designed to look like local news sources.
These two dozen sites, with names such as North County Update and Central Valley Update look like political fact-checking sites; the NRCCs spokeswoman, Andrea Bozek, called it a new and effective way to disseminate information.
An NRCC official told me the sites are legal because, if you scroll all the way to the bottom, youll find, Paid for by the National Republican Congressional Committee in small print. Theyre not fake Web sites, the official said. These are real attack Web sites.
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